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Dec. 18 ,1923.

1,478,000 E. R. DRAW-:R

FEEDER Filed July l, 1921 Patented Dec. 18, 1923.

UNITED STATES' EMIL R. BEAVER, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR T B.

F. GUlIlP COMPANY, Ol'

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS.

FmER.

Application lied July l,

To all whom. it 'may comm.'

Be it known that I EMIL ,R. DnAvEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Wayne and 6 State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feeders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact .description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled l0 in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a feeding device and particularly to a feeding device used in mills or other places for t e pur ose of 16 uniforml feedin ound or granu ar material. evices o t is type are also widely used for feeding and blending different kinds of flour, cereals and various ground material used in the production of stock 0 foods.

It is an object of this invention to combine with the discharge outlet of a housing having a mixing or conveying device therein, a feeder b which the material dis- 25 charged from t e hopper will be fed in an even and uniform stream.

It is a further ob'ect of the invention to provide such a fee er which may be conveniently driven from thesame drive shaft so that drives the said conveying or mixing device.

Still a further object of the invention is to provide such a feeding device in the form of a hollow cone and also to provide a cona venient means for mountingl the same.

These and other objects of the invention will be clearly brought out in the following description made in connection with the accompanying drawings in which like refern ence characters refer to the same arts throughout the different views and, in w ich,

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of the mixing and feeding device, a portion thereof being shown in section;

Fig. 2 is a partial view of the similar nature showing a modification; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a modified form of a feeding device.

Referring to the drawings:

The device comprises spaced frame members 1 and 2 between which is mounted in suitable supports a trough shaped housing 3. The frame members are also provided above said housing with alined bearings 1 1921. Serial No. 481,791.

and 2, in which is rotatabl mounted a drive shaft 5, which shaft is also supported by an auxiliary bearing 4 mounted on the top of the housing 3. he shaft 5 is provided at one end with the driving pulley 6 fixed thereto and between said pulley and the bearing 1al a sprocket wheel 7 is secured to said shaft by a set screw or other suitable means. The pulley 6 may be provided with some suitable form of clutch mechanism by which the same can be readily connected or disconnected from a shaft 5. The frame members 1 and 2 also sup ort bearings 8 and 8 in which is journa ed for rotation a shaft 9 passing centrall through the trough 3 and having secure thereto a conveying and mixing' element 10 shown as comprising a helical conveyor. The frame 2 above the bearing 2 is also provided with a bearing 2" in which is mounted on a suitable short shaft a rocking member 11. This rocking member is connected b a pair of links 12 to pawl and ratchet mee anism nerall designated as 13, the ratchet whee of whic is secured to the end of the shaft 9. The mechanism comprising the members 1l to 13 in itself forms no art of the present invention, but ma be o the type shown in my prior Patent o. 1,307,349 dated June 24th, 1919. The rocking member 11 is driven by a disconnectible link 14 connected to a crank (pin 15 extending from a crank arm secure to crank shaft 5. The frame member 1 comprises the portion 1" formin a supplort and closure member for one en of the ousing 3 and is also formed with a cylindrical rejecting flange or lip 1 and an opening orming t e outlet from said housing. The frame 1 is further equipped with a caring 1" in alinement with the bearin 8 in which bearings are journaled a sha t 16. A hollow frusta-conical member 17 is supported upon a suitable spider 17, which is secured to shaft 16 adjacent the bearing 8, the end of member 17 being formed cylindrical and surrounding the flange 1. A collar 18 is secured to the shaft 16 adjacent the bearing 1" and prevents longitudinal motion of said shaf At the outer end of shaft 16 adjacent the outer end of bearing 1d is secured a sprocket wheel 19 of sub stantially the same diameter of and arranged in alinement with sprocket wheel 7 from which it is driven by a connecting chain 20.

A brush member 21 is arranged to bear against the upper side of the member 17 and is provided with an angular bracket arranged to be bolted to frame member 1. I The operation of the device is as follows: The power being applied to the Ypulley 6 by a suitable belt, the shaft is 'rotated and rotates the crank arm 15. Rocking movement is transmitted from the crank arm to 10 the rocking member 11 and the frwtchet wheel of the pawl and ratchet mechanism is thus intermittently turned through the links 12. An .intermittent rotation 1s thus given to the mixing and conveying element Il 10. It may be stated that the rocking movement transmitted to the pawl and ratchet mechanism is variable by means of the adjustment of the rocking member 11 by the crank shown so that member 10 can be 90 driven at various s eds. The feedin element 17 will be driven through sproc ets 7 and 19 and the chain 20 and will be constantly driven. As the shaft 16 is constantly driven from the shaft 5 at substantially the same speed as the latter, and the conveyor 10 is onl intermittently driven, a part of a revolution for every revolution of shaft 5, it is apparent that the conveyor is rotated at a less speed than the shaft 16 W which carries the distributing member 17. The material will be discharged and fed through the opening at the bottom and end of trough 3 onto the member 17 and will be fed thereby in an even and uniform stream. l When the brush 21 is supplied an material adhering to the said member, wi lbe removed therefrom as the same rotates.

In the modification shown in' Fig. 2, the bearing 1d is provided with a larger bore 4o and the spider 17 is provided with a hub formed as an elongated sleeve or hollow shaft extending through the bearing 1". This sleeve carries the sprocket 19 and the collar 18, and the shaft 9 of the conveyor extends cs through the sleeve and is supported thereby at its outer end.

The o ration of this form of the invention wil be substantially like that described. The member 17 will be constantly driven b so the sprocket 19 and wili rotate on the sha 9 as albearing, being also supported in beari 1 rom the above description, it is seen that a plicant has provided a convenient and 6s e cient feeding device and one which is arranged to be readily and conveniently driven from the drive shaft of the conveyor and mixing element. It will be noted that by the construction described, the feeding memno ber 17 can be driven in either direction and et the conveyor will be driven in the proper direction -to discha the material through the intermittent f ing mechanism at one end ofthe device. In Fig. 3, the feeding Il device 18 will be mounted 1n the same manner as the element 17 but is shown in the form of a cylindrical tube instead of conical form.

It will, of course, be understood that various changes may be made in the form, details and arrangement of the device without departin from the scope of a plicants invention, w ich generally state consists in the matter shown and described and set forth in the appended claims.

What is claimed is 1. A feeding and distributing device for fine or granular material comprising a stationary trough having a discharge outlet at one end, a conveyor in said trough, a hollow conical chute having a free outer edge and having its smaller end disposed adjacent to and continuous with said trough and outlet, means for constantl rotating said chute, and means for rotating said conve or.

2. A device of the class descri havin 1n combination, a housing, a mixing an feeding element therein, means for rotating said element, said housing havin an outlet, an open-ended frusto-conical ceding device having a free outer edge and having its smaller end alined with said housing and receiving from said outlet, means for constantly rotating said feeding device, and a common drive shaft for operating said last named means and the means for rotating said mixing and conveying element.

3. A feeding mechanism comprisin a supply conveyor, a hollow conical fee g element in alinement therewith and receiving directly therefrom, driving means for the said feeding element and means for driving said conveyor at a less speed than said feeding element.

4. A feeding mechanism comprising an intermittently driven rotary conve or, a hollow continuously rotated flaring ceding drum in alinement therewith and to which said conveyor directly delivers, said feeding 'drum being of greater radial extent than said conveyor, and means for drivin said conveyor at a less speed than sai feed drum.

5. A feeding device having in combination, a horizontal trough, a driven conveyor therein, a constantly rotating hollow imperforate frusta-conical distributing member axially alined with said trough and having its inner and smaller edge substantially alined with the bottom of said trough and receiving material therefrom and having its larger end free whereby the material discharged from said trough travels the entire length of said member.

6. The structure set forth in claim 8 and a common driving shaft from which said convyor and feedin device are driven.

7. feeding mec anism having in combination a housing, a mixing and intermittently driven feeding and conveying element therein, a hollow conical constantly driven feeding element to vwhich said conveying element delivers, separate shafts upon which said elements are mounted, a common driving shaft and means for driving said elements from said driving shaft.

8. A feeding mechanism having 1n combination, an intermittently driven feeding and mixing conveyor, a constantly driven imperforate frusto-conical feeding element to which said conveyor delivers, a common driving shaft having its axis parallel to the axis of said conveyor and feedin element, adjustable means for intermittent y driving said conveyor from said drivin shaft, and means for drivi Said feeding e ement from said driving 9. A feeding device having in combination a stationary trou h having a discharge openin at one end t ereof, a mixi and conveying means therefor, a hollow stoconical imperforate drum rotatably mounted with its smaller end adjacent the discharge opening of said trough, said drum having an unmterrupted interior surface from a point adjacent the trough to its discharge end and means for continuously rotating said drum.

10. A feeding device consisting of a frame, a trough supported therein, a shaft with a conveyor in said trough, a conical drum feeder having a shaft in line with said conveyor shaft, and at the dischar end of said conveyor, a common drive shae and separate mechanism connected with said drive shaft and said conveyor and feeder shafts, respectively, for operatin the conve or and feeder at diierent spee s.

n testimon whereof I aix my signature in presence o two witnesses.

EMIL R. DRAVER. Witnesses:

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